We shall take a star out of the skies and shall set thousands of worlds on fire...

When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.

I'm a Star Wars junkie, and I know the number of science fiction fans we have here. I knew this would be a problem, just like I knew everyone would try to download Internet Explorer 5.0 when it was released.

Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.

It's not really science-fiction, ... It's the world 30 years from
now, [a time] in which for 18 years no human child has been born, for unknown
reasons. Civilizations are falling apart. England is the last remaining
civilization as we know it, because it's an island that's insulated itself from
Europe, which is in civil wars and complete pandemonium. So the story takes
place in that context. It's a story about hope and faith.

For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.